Mechanical Door Repairers
Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.
Most important skills
- Installation
- Critical Thinking
- Repairing
- Quality Control Analysis
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
- Operations Monitoring
- Reading Comprehension
Key knowledge
- Administration and Management
- Customer and Personal Service
- Building and Construction
- Mechanical
- English Language
- Mathematics
- Education and Training
- Administrative
What the work involves
- Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.
- Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.
- Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location.
- Collect payment upon job completion.
- Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
- Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
- Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
- Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (80.1% of expert ratings)
- Related experience
- None (48.3%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months (38.9%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Mechanical Door Repairers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Moderate | Lower on contact with others than 59% of occupations compared | — |
| Dealing with the public | Low | Lower on dealing with the public than 66% of occupations compared | 23% of surveyed respondents chose “Important” |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 92% of occupations compared | 31% of surveyed respondents chose “Important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 76% of occupations compared | 59% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Moderate | Higher on time pressure than 51% of occupations compared | 39% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Low | Lower on conflict situations than 60% of occupations compared | 31% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 82% of occupations compared | 44% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | Moderate | Lower on consequence of error than 57% of occupations compared | 38% of surveyed respondents chose “Serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: moderate
- Conflict situations: low
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very low
- Consequence of error: moderate
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 4.96%
- Contact with others about half the time: 12.18%
- Contact with others most of the time: 33.44%
- Constant contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 20.46%
- Fairly important: 18.47%
- Important: 23.25%
- Very important: 15.14%
- Extremely important: 22.68%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2026
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 14.58%
- Fairly important: 5.63%
- Important: 31.03%
- Very important: 18.4%
- Extremely important: 30.36%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2026
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 16.24%
- Some freedom: 24.7%
- A lot of freedom: 59.07%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2026
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 13.8%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 23.71%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 23.32%
- Every day: 39.17%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2026
Conflict situations
- Never: 18.47%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 31.35%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 18.47%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 26.08%
- Every day: 5.63%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a year or more but not every month: 44.11%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 17.33%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 8.34%
- Every day: 5.87%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2026
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 13.8%
- Fairly serious: 19.74%
- Serious: 38.47%
- Very serious: 23.32%
- Extremely serious: 4.67%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2026
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